A5 CULTURE “It’s a very different environment. The science
environment is different from that completely and it’s
generally different from what I’ve been describing”
A2 CULTURE “I’d better get with the program and understand
because I sure as hell wasn’t going to change the
(organization’s culture) ... I think that you have to
understand the organism in which you live and existif you’re going to optimize yourself. ,
A5 OCCUPATIONCULTURE “It’s different managing in a science culture than in a resource management culture.”
A8 CULTURE “When you look at fairy tales that came out of
different cultures or not just fairy tales butthat they’re so many similar threads in them, because social tales
they tell the younger generation in a non-threatening
way of ‘here’s how you need to behave if you’re
going to succeed in this world’.”
A9 CULTURE “I think one of the things that you should explore and
you might be doing this is how the culture of an
organization influences EI. I imagine it does. And
what I’m thinking about is, you know, there are very hierarchical organizations and is it even possible to
have leaders with high EI in those kinds of
organizations? But then you have very flexible,
nimble organizations like (agency name), for
example, where maybe the model does encourage that. I don’t know. Be kind of an interesting way to
look at this. But then of course you have the vast
majority of organizations which are incredibly mis-
managed and sort of a hybrid of a hierarchical and
(chuckle) free-wheeling nature.”
Theme 4: EI experiences are inherent for effective leadership. EI experiences are
inextricably bound to leadership, according to participant accounts. Leadership, the
ability to relate with others, maturity, integrity, and workplace pressures represent some
of the participant experiences, as detailed in Table 4.8 below. This theme’s essence
related to the scholarly discourse described in Chapter 2, in terms of the association
between EI and effective leadership. Participants viewed the two as inherently bound
together, i.e., one cannot exist without the other.